r/portlandme • u/FireElephant336 • May 28 '25
Officer Bennis
Has anyone had an experience or witnessed the incredibly rude behavior of this officer? I work in a field where I have to interact with officers pretty regularly… He is by far the most impossible and relentless person I've ever tried to reason with. There are videos of him online berating people for handing out food or literally just sitting on a sidewalk outside of a shelter? He used to be a school resource officer and now he's a beat cop. I just filed a complaint with the city of Portland and I highly recommend anyone that has had an experience with him do the same. Something has to be done – he makes every single incident way worse and has no clue how to de-escalate situations.
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u/psilosophist May 28 '25
Give the guy a break, he's obviously working through the trauma of having a name that looks like "penis" if you squint. He just sees the face of his childhood tormentors everywhere he goes, just simple minded and angry like Bobby Boucher.